Bottle-stopper.



A. A. MILLER;

BOTTLE STOPPER.

APPLIQATION FILED JULY, 14,.1913.

1,1 1 1,228. Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

Swuontoz THE NORRIS PETERS Co, PHOTO-LITHCL, WASHINGTON. D. C.

i 1 Stoppers ;z' andgladoad to. -be;a;.fu11; clear, Ia I v the iIWIIftiOliQit SIlCh as s in stoppers tainers. 15 v v. H

k a .stopper'of thischaracter inthe form offl,

hollow coneif shaped body. formed of; paper per of this character which will fully take nitfrilfilt A; Mitten, or ,Kiirowsin, 'wnfsnineron. V y

gp lilication c I, 1 Be itlmownlthat LARTH A. M- :r.r.nn, a citizen. of thegeUnited States,.-,-.res d ng at r Kapowsin,'-5inethe-; county e1 4; Pierce and; State;of; Washington ihave.inve ed certaln new lzandj inseful'gl mprovements "GXfLOlZ description of ill 'l enable zothers skilled in th art to w it apperta insvto This invention relates to improvements One object of the is provide or similar fabric andhaving a reinforcing 111621118130 hold the same in fluid-tight engagement withthe mouth of the bottle. I

Another object. isto provide a bottle stopthe place of the usual cork stopper and which may bemanufactured at a much less cost.

invention consists ofcertain novel features .of constructionfl and j the combination and arrangement of p rts as will be more fully described and claimed.

In I the accompanying drawings Figure v 1 is a vertical section of the neck and mouth of a bottle showing my improved stopper applied thereto, the stopper being shownin" side elevation; Fig. 2 1san enlarged central i 33 of FigfQ; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same showin the manner in which the stop per is formed;

reinforcing member of the stopper illus'trating the manner in which said member is paper blank from which the stopper is formed Fig. 5'is1a perspective view of the Fig, 6 is a similar view of the formed.

ter and which is preferably. constructed of heavy waxpaper, but which may be conedge to its center as shown at 2 after which, beginning with ,one of the 'slitted edges the paper is coiledbr woun'dv spirally into a hollow cone-which forms the body 3 of the stopper When the paper disk is thus rolled- I eclare {the 1 "following,

for. bottles. :an'dli Similar Icon i I "nor'riJE -srorrn t.

Patented s fit'gaz; 1914..

" turned, back before the last'llap is rolled as indicated at 4: in-F-ig. 5 of the drawings, said by the lastjwra'pping or lap ofthe paperr Byj thus; turning backathe point of the cone turnedback point of the conebeingv covered 6 p said point is strengthened and reinforced.

. After; the-paper has been entirelyIwoundior ,coijledlthe free edge thereof nia-y be securely f s enjedfiby. aEliquidproof cement orgglue i-andthepa er; or fabric thusprevent'ed from? nwindin xTheycone shap edibody" of when! j .constructed; in; the manner: described is are-f inforced at itsouter open end andsaid end T rev nted! miee lep in by ar s l seb re ,infor'cing element comprising a- 'segmentah Estrip 6 of metal of suitable length and width i which isrolled or'spirally coiled to a sufiiouter end of the body of the stopper and v engagement withthe innersurfa'ce of'the lVith these and other objectsin view, the

mouth of the bottle. The strip 6 hasits outer surface serrated or roughened as shown at 7 to cause the same to form a tight engagement with the inner surface of the strip is indented to form a series of outwardly extending projections or detents 8 which engage the'upper inner edge of the cone and prevent the latter from being forced too far into the same; 7 The strip is also preferably corrugated transversely as at 9, said corrugations preventing the strip fromcoiling up too much when the stopper is forced into the neckof the bottle. The

. v, corrugations 9 may extend throughout the In constructing my improved stopper, I provide a circular disk 1, of suitable diameof the strip.;

By providing a reinforcing element for the stopper as herein shown and described it will be seen that while the stopper may be forced into tight engagement with the mouth of the bottle andwill be held in this position by said element,*the latter will prevent the outer portion of the stopper from is cient extent to be inserted into the open I collajlo sinor b'omihg'" dented or creased in such manner as to prevent the same from,

forming an absolutely fliiid tightcloetire ref 1 i d "h v g i s outer surface roughened and prothe bottle.

From the foregoing description tal ien connection withthe accompanying draw in'gs, the "construction and operatlon of the invention Will be readily understood with and the minor d'etails of: construction may '1; principle or sacrificing anyof the advantages 'ofthe invention as claimed.

Ieleimisz. v I

* 1.-A bottle stopperiformedofr jfab i be resorted to'without departing from-the Having-thusvdescribed my invention,

- disk-slitted from its outenedge to it'ecen-ter and'woundupon itselftofiform a; cone shaped hollow body, thei-re'duced' end ofwhieh-is turned back and covered by wrapping of thefabric tovreinforce"this endof-the stop-- inper,winde reinforcingielement aidaptedtob'e nsered in he 'e ir one en comprising a strip of resilient "Ineta1 Wound upon itself to form a; Circular 0011, send strip yided on one edge with indentations adapted to formdetents and corrugationsfformed trensrersely of Said strip: v i l 2; Abott1eStopper fo'rm'edfronl a diskof sheet material slitted from its-outeredge to J. SAND R;

:Coinmfisioner of intents;

etopper its center and WOILIldHIPOIlll-itSGl-f tOIfOI'm e; f eone sihepedhollow body, the reducedend i of which has-"th'e edge of the-materiel turned back ujionxits'eif 'zignd 'covei edl bywrapping? Q the inateriel where'byr thieendgof the stop'peri {5; e

' is reinforced; mes reinforcing element in-V. serted in the open lonter end 0ilthe Stopper; I ,In' testitnonyiwhereoi {ll hagve he reuntogset" my hand in preeence of two :sub scribingiwifl 

